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Asian Pork – Freezer to Slow Cooker

At the end of my second week of preparing ‘Freezer to Slow Cooker’ (aka CrockPot) meals I can honestly say this is the best thing since sliced bread! The entire process has saved me time, energy, and money. The meals that I prepared for this week were even better than the first week. I know I have only posted 2 of those recipes, but the rest of that week will have to wait. These meals are just too good to keep from you, especially the Asian Pork.

The Hubs and I sat down together and chose the recipes. I would have gone with more chicken or meatless dishes, but I did ask him to assist me in choosing, so we came up with these:

French shredded beef

Philly Cheese Steak

White chicken chili

Ham and Scalloped potatoes

Asian Pork

We had enough leftovers that we skipped making one on Thursday night, so I have one still in the freezer. I will have to report on the French shredded beef at a later date, but the other four recipes were such a huge hit that The Hubs and the girls had seconds on more than one occasion and I have already been asked to make some of them again. That is definitely a good sign!

The process of putting the meals together was again an assembly line with daughters 3 and 4 assisting me in everything from stirring to shredding and slicing. Oh, and of course doing the dishes! It is amazing how fast these meals come together if you have everything ready to go.

As before, I prepped the vegetables for all of the meals at once. Daughter Number 3 was in charge of onion. I typically cut down the amount of onion recipes call for because of family preference. So I used one very large onion to cover 4 recipes.

For the shredded beef, white chicken chili, and ham and scalloped potatoes I needed diced onion. I cut the onion (did I mention it was very large?) into fourths and gave 3 of the pieces to my slicer / dicer. She put them in the food processor and chopped them. I sliced the other 1/4th into thin strips for the Philly cheese steak. I also let her slice the potatoes in the food processor. That worked very well.

This week I worked from the beef dishes, to pork, ending with chicken. I like to scrub everything in my kitchen thoroughly after the chicken dishes so for me it makes sense to do that last. I did it in reverse the previous week, and that slowed me down a bit.

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I’ll have to try the Asian Pork, I haven’t had that one! I love the white chicken chili and the ham and scalloped potatoes though! And it really is easy! I love taking the hour to prep four or five meals and then I’m set! I can’t believe I haven’t done it before! I browned some Italian sausage this morning and diced and onion, garlic and potatoes and dropped them in the crock pot with broth and water. Four hours later I added some kale and then some cream. Crock pot Zuppa Toscana! 🙂 One of the very few soups I like!